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Public Release: 16-Nov-2017

One health researchers identify hot spots of tick-borne diseases in Mongolia

George Mason University (USA)

Given the critical role livestock play in Mongolia, transmission of tick-borne diseases can have very real health and economic implications for livestock and the herders that tend to them. Dr. Michael von Fricken explored this association using a multidisciplinary One Health research approach, which focused on the interaction between nomadic herders, the livestock they own, and the tick-borne diseases they are exposed to. von Fricken spent a year living in Ulaanbataar as a postdoc with Duke University, under Dr. Greg Gray, working alongside veterinarians from the Institute of Veterinary Medicine and the National Center for Zoonotic Diseases. …

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Note: Dr. Gray is an extraordinary physician One Health leader and member of the One Health Initiative Hon. Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php.